Reading, writing, rap? Jay-Z is leaving his mark on the classroom. The rap icon has inspired a college course at Georgetown. Race, gender, culture, things that would be covered in most sociology classes. The issues are examined in a way that uniquely appealed to college students.
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The record-setting rapper and hip-hop icon has become a business tycoon and best selling author. But now Jay-Z’s street rhymes are being taught at one of America’s top schools.

In the syllabus it’s called the “Sociology of Hip-Hop, the Odyssey of Jay-Z”. For 140 students twice a week it’s 90 minutes of head bouncing and dissecting.

“You have someone who perpetuates the same impediments imposed upon him,” says a student taking the class.